 ... That gravity should be innate, inherent and essential to matter, so that one body may act upon another at a distance through a vacuum, without the mediation of anything else, by and through which their action and force may be conveyed from one to...  The Church Quarterly Review - Seite 1501876Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Emanuel Swedenborg - 2003 - 352 Seiten
...of gravity acting through a vacuum, writing that the idea was "so great an absurdity, that I believe no man who has in philosophical matters a competent faculty of thinking, can ever fall into it" (Newton 1953, 54). [SS] Notes to §§83-88 64. Correspondence is defined in §71 above; see also... | |
 | Ivor Leclerc - 2002 - 392 Seiten
...acceptance of Henry More's doctrine of extension pertaining to me so great an absurdity, that I believe no man, who has in philosophical matters a competent faculty of thinking, can ever fall into it. Gravity must be caused by an agent acting constantly according to certain laws ; but whether this... | |
 | Myron W. Evans - 2004 - 839 Seiten
...action and force may be conveyed from one to another, is to me so great an absurdity, that I believe no man who has in philosophical matters a competent faculty of thinking, can ever fall into it. Gravity must be caused by an agent acting constantly according to certain laws; but whether this... | |
 | Nico Stehr, Reiner Grundmann - 2005 - 424 Seiten
...that one body may act upon another at a distance ... is to me so great an absurdity that I believe no man who has in philosophical matters a competent faculty of thinking can ever fall into it.' It is interesting to see that Newton condemned here, in anticipation, the bulk of his followers.... | |
 | Michael Wayne - 2005 - 226 Seiten
...action and force may be conveyed, from one to another, is to me so great an absurdity that I believe no Man who has in philosophical matters a competent faculty of thinking can ever fall into it. Gravity must be caused by an agent acting constantly according to certain laws; but whether this... | |
 | William Stempsey - 2005 - 266 Seiten
...action and force may be conveyed from one to another, is to me so great an absurdity, that I believe no man who has, in philosophical matters, a competent faculty of thinking, can ever fall into it." 0 But I do not see how the existence of such an ether can render any more intelligible the fact... | |
 | Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka - 2005 - 384 Seiten
..."essential and inherent to matter". 26 To believe that it is so is "so great an absurdity that I believe no man who has in philosophical matters a competent faculty of thinking can ever fall into it", 27 according to Newton. Newton ventures on explaining the operation of gravity. Like any other... | |
 | Sven Müller - 2006 - 288 Seiten
...Action and Force may be conveyed from one to another, is to me so great an Absurdity, that 1 believe no Man who has in philosophical Matters a competent Faculty of thinking, can ever fall into it. Gravity must be caused by an Agent acting constantly according to certain Laws; but whether this... | |
 | Fabien Chareix - 2006 - 324 Seiten
...action and force may be conveyed from one to another, is to me so great an absurdity, that 1 believe no man who has in philosophical matters a competent faculty of thinking, can ever fall into it ». 3. Fontenelle, op. cit. la cause dira que la sphère B tend certainement vers le centre de la... | |
 | Peter Dear - 2008 - 256 Seiten
...action and force may be conveyed from one to another, is to me so great an absurdity that I believe no man who has in philosophical matters a competent faculty of thinking can ever fall into it.1 ! The absurdity was a question of the simple unintelligibility of action at a distance: how could... | |
| |
